Black Decker Inc.

Nigel Robson

Brian Wadge

Andrew Walker

Tim McKay

Ian Sokell

Mark Stratford

Sion Netzler

Clare Tate

John Sadler

Christopher John Dineen

A router includes a motor housing, a motor provided in the motor housing driving a collet for turning a cutting tool, and a base for resting on a workpiece. Support columns mounted to the base allow the motor housing to move relative to the base in a direction parallel to the rotational axis of the cutting tool. The support columns are spaced apart in a direction transverse to the rotational axis, and the motor housing is connected to the support columns by means of support members spaced apart in a direction parallel to the rotational axis.

Router

A power tool () includes a motor () pivotally mounted within the housing of the tool. The tool is able to accept any one of a plurality of attachment members ().

Tool body

Drill

A handle assembly for a power toolcomprises a housingdefining a handleand housing a motor for actuating an output member of the tool, such as a drill bit or jigsaw blade. The handle assembly comprises at least one flexible sheetadapted to be mounted to a surface of the handle of the power tool and having a series of protrusionsadapted to be engaged by a hand of a user of the tool. The protrusionsretain at least one gaseous vibration damping material such as air between the flexible sheetand the surface of the handle

Handle assembly for tool

The present invention provides a blower-vacuum device having means for collecting garden waste, the garden waste collecting means comprising: an attachment part () for receiving a garden waste receptacle; and a garden waste receptacle () for removable engagement with the attachment part; wherein the attachment part () comprises an arcuate groove (); and the garden waste receptacle () comprises a band () defining a mouth () of the receptacle for sliding engagement with the groove. Thus the receptacle may be easily removed from the attachment part of the blower-vacuum device merely by sliding the band () of the receptacle out of the groove (), whereupon the receptacle may then be emptied of garden waste by tipping it upside-down. In a preferred embodiment, the band () is made of a resilient material, whereby when the band is inserted into the groove (), the band is constrained by the groove and the mouth () of the receptacle defined by the band is made narrower than when the band is withdrawn from the groove. Thus when the band is withdrawn from the groove (), the mouth () of the receptacle opens out (arrows R and S), making it easier to empty.

Means for collecting garden waste

A handle assembly for a power toolcomprises a housingdefining a handleand housing a motor for actuating an output member of the tool, such as a drill bit or jigsaw blade. The handle assembly comprises at least one flexible sheetadapted to be mounted to a surface of the handle of the power tool and having a series of protrusionsadapted to be engaged by a hand of a user of the tool. The protrusionsretain one or more blister packs (not shown) containing at least one vibration damping gel material between the flexible sheetand the surface of the handle

Vegetation pruning device

A power sander () having a housing () and a motor within the housing is disclosed. A gripping portion adapted to be engaged by a hand of a user of the sander comprises blister packs (), () comprising first and second flexible sheets defining a gel-containing chamber therebetween and containing a vibration damping gel material, the first and second sheets being sealed to each other at the periphery of each gel-containing chamber. Clamping plates (), () include a body portion and pins (not shown) adapted to extend through the periphery of a corresponding blister pack and to protrude inwardly of the surface of the housing (). The pins are then deformed by means of heat or ultrasound to secure the clamping plates (), () to the housing ().

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Gateshead, United Kingdom

Nigel Robson